Iqbi-damiq

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Iqbi-damiq
Niĝgina
Major cult centerKish, Assur
Personal information
Parentspossibly Zababa and Šarrat-Kiš[1]
Siblingspossibly Ḫussinni[1]

Iqbi-damiq was a

Niĝgina. She is mentioned in texts of Assur and Babylon
. An illness named after her, the "hand of Iqbi-damiq," is known from texts focused on medicine and omens.

Name

Wilfred G. Lambert assumed Iqbi-damiq was a male deity, and accordingly translated the name as "He spoke: it was pleasant",[2] but in a more recent publication Andrew R. George translates it as "She said 'it is fine!'" and notes that she was regarded as a member of a duo referred to as the Daughters of Edubba.[3]

Manfred Krebernik notes the name is structurally similar to that of Qibî-dumqī ("Speak my hail").

Ishtar.[5]

Associations with other deities

As one of the Daughters of Edubba, Iqbi-damiq was paired with Ḫussinni,

Zarpanit and Nanaya respectively.[8] Edubba (Sumerian: "storage house") was ta temple of the god Zababa located in Kish.[9] Frans Wiggermann suggests that Iqbi-damiq and Ḫussinni might have been viewed as the daughters of this god and Šarrat-Kiš ("Queen of Kish").[1] The latter deity might be identical to Bau, though evidence is ambiguous.[3]

Iqbi-damiq also functioned as the

Utu who was regarded as the personification of truth.[10] However, in his commentary of the line of the god list An = Anum attesting this connection, Richard L. Litke states that a sukkal having a sukkal of their own should be considered an anomaly.[11]

Worship

Multiple

Belet-ekalli in Assur.[12] The latter bore the name Ekinam, "house, place of destinies".[13] In a lipšur litany Iqbi-damiq is listed as a denizen of Egalmaḫ, the temple of Gula in Babylon.[14] In a late ritual text, she is listed as one of the fifteen deities worshiped in Edubba in Kish.[1]

Iqbi-damiq is also attested in the incantation series Šurpu.[2] However, in some of the known copies Qibî-dumqī appears in the same passage instead.[4]

Hand of Iqbi-damiq

A disease known as the "hand of Iqbi-damiq" is also attested in ancient Mesopotamian sources.

Naqi'a, the mother of Esarhaddon, was suffering from was the hand of Iqbi-damiq.[16] While an alternate translation of the hand of Iqbi-damiq refers to the involvement of this deity in divination in this context has also been suggested, it is regarded as less plausible.[17] A subsequent passage states further divination rituals were performed to learn if offering of sheep and oxen would result in recovery.[18]

In a medical text, the hand of Iqbi-damiq is listed next to other similarly named afflictions: the "hand of Nanaya from Uruk", "hand of Kanisurra" and "hand of Qibi-dumqi".[15] Many further examples of "hands" of specific deities are known from medical treatises and omen texts, with as many as thirty-five individual ones known as of 2018.[18] While the majority of them are causes of diseases, injuries or accidents, a few are listed as good omens, for example "hand of Ishtar".[19]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiggermann 2018, p. 886.
  2. ^ a b Lambert 1980, p. 151.
  3. ^ a b c George 2000, p. 298.
  4. ^ a b c Krebernik 2008, p. 177.
  5. ^ a b MacGinnis 2020, p. 109.
  6. ^ Asher-Greve & Westenholz 2013, p. 113.
  7. ^ Asher-Greve & Westenholz 2013, pp. 112–113.
  8. ^ George 2000, p. 295.
  9. ^ George 1993, p. 78.
  10. ^ Klein 1998, p. 311.
  11. ^ Litke 1998, p. 133.
  12. ^ George 1993, p. 144.
  13. ^ George 1993, p. 110.
  14. ^ George 1993, p. 88.
  15. ^ a b Stol 1998, p. 147.
  16. ^ Worthington 2010, p. 66.
  17. ^ Worthington 2010, pp. 66–67.
  18. ^ a b Heeßel 2018, p. 141.
  19. ^ Heeßel 2018, pp. 147–148.

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